Top ten strange and weird Irish curses-when you really want to hex your enemy

Traditional American Curse: "May you stick your head out the roof of the train when you are passing under a bridge and may your head be knocked off". My own made up stupid rubbish? Yes, just like the rubbish ten "Irish curses" in this stupid article. What a load on old baloney! Éamonn, Dublin, Ireland.

What an immature nation.

Never heard of any of them either,and I am from Ireland.

ridiculous, never heard of any of them.

NELL FLAHERTY'S DRAKE, excerpt May his spade never dig, may his sow never pig May each hair in his wig be well trashed with the flail My his door never latch, may his roof have no thatch May his turkeys not hatch, may the rats eat his meal May every old fairy from Cork to Dun Laoghaire Dip him snug and airy in river or lake That the eel and the trout they may dine on the snout Of the monster that murdered Nell Flaherty's drake May his pig never grunt, may his cat never hunt May a ghost ever haunt him the dead of the night May his hens never lay, may his horse never neigh May his coat fly away like an old paper kite That the flies and the fleas may the wretch ever tease May the piercin' March breeze make him shiver and shake May a lump of the stick raise the bumps fast and quick On the monster that murdered Nell Flaherty's drake

This is not a curse - just a word of reality (with kudos to Pamela Geller): "In any war between the civilized man and the savage, always support the civilized man". Ms. Geller's very obviously good and proper advice will very soon become advice which will have to be followed, or the world as we know it is doomed. Éamonn, Dublin, Ireland.

None of these are Irish curses. Number 8 was coined by William Congreve, 18th-century English playwright. You Googled the rest of them or else you made them up. Thanks a lot.

These 'Irish curses' show a total disconnect from any knowledge of Ireland. Is there any Irish person reading this who has heard even one of them? It would make me wonder about the rest of your reporting if I wasn't wondering already.

I hope the docents at this museum will be clued in on the politics of the British parliament at the time of the famine, and how "free trade" trumped human need, leving hundreds of thousands dead that could have been saved. When I called that to the attention of the docents at the famine museum in Skibereen, they gave me a blank stare and said "we'll look in to it." Meanwhile they had a video narrated by Jedremy Irons (who lives on an island nearby) mentioning the horrors of the potato blight, but nothing about the oppressive politics of the time. I found that shocking.

How about "Bad cess to you," as in bad luck to you. Cess is an old English word for a type of tax, such as a land tax. I remember the old people in Ireland using the term. And there's "May the curse of the crows be upon you," or the more complete expression "May the curse of the crows fall down on your head."